Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rumi

The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.

Thomas A. Edison

Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You've got to make the damn thing work!...I failed my way to success.

Sheryl Swoopes

Sexuality and gender don't change anyone's performance on the court.

Simone de Beauvoir

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

Simon Sinek

Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return.

Simon Raven

Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.

Simon Le Bon

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

Tony Judt

How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?

Tony Buzan

The Alexander Technique transformed my life. it is the result of an acknowledged genius. I would recommend it to anyone.

Steven Spielberg

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

Steven Erikson

Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself.

Steve Martin

Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.

Steve Buscemi

It doesn't matter to me what the genre is.

Stephan Pastis

If you're from a certain generation, you basically learn to read with 'Peanuts.' It's sort of the template for the modern strip. Its influence ceased to be noticed because it's in everything.

Stendhal

It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation.

Stanislaw Lem

The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.

Scott Weiland

To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love - the ones that influenced me.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Be just before you are generous.

Tinie Tempah

Every generation that comes from this family has to do better than the last.

Thomas Wolfe

I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it.

Thucydides

In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.

Robert A. Heinlein

Gentlemen, let's go row!

Thomas Watson, Jr.

There's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric, and if you're too late, you're a failure, but if you hit it right on the head, you're a genius.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.

Richard Donner

I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.

Tom Ford

You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.

Steve Wozniak

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

Vanna Bonta

Thought has no gender.

Susanna Clarke

He screamed. Mmm?' inquired the gentleman. I...I would never presume to interrupt you, sir. But the ground appears to be swallowing me up.' It is a bog,' said the gentleman, helpfully. It is certainly a most terrifying substance.

Steven Levy

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. (OK, it doesn't take a genius, or even a politician, to figure out that big changes are afoot when we have a medium that lets someone throw up a virtual storefront on the Web and instantly gain access to the global market.)

Steven Pinker

Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene.

Sun Myung Moon

The present U.N. must be annihilated by our power. That is the stage for Communists. We must make a new U.N.

Robert Burns

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.